Question Seventeen: Have you ever been party to, or provided support for, a lawsuit involving Pacifica or its employees? When and Why?

KPFA Listener-Sponsor candidates

Carl Bryant -

Steven Conley -

Bob English - Only if there was another takeover attempt.

Dianne Enriquez - No.

Sherry Gendelman - I was chair of the KPFA LAB when the “renegade” national board of the late 1990’s attempted it hijack of our airwaves. I was a lead plaintiff in LAB lawsuite, one of the 3 major suites that saved the Network.

Mathew Hallinan –

Chandra Hauptman – I fundraised for the Spooner lawsuit against the prior dissident board and demonstrated against dissident board members.

David Heller – No.

Warren Mar – No.

Susan McDonough – No.

Antonio Medrano - No.

Attila Nagy – No.

Richard Phelps – No.

Mara Rivera - Yes - I signed on to Carol Spooner’s listeners’ lawsuit which helped get the station back in 1999 to 2003.

Paul Robins – No.

CC Campbell Rock – No.

Tracy Rosenberg – Nope.

Gerald Sanders – No.

Sureya Sayadi - No, but I believe that the lack of transparency and unequal treatment is responsible for the present and growing list of lawsuits against KFPA and Pacifica. The effort by the management and the counsel to blame the lawyers and the workers who have filed suits is misplaced. We need to have a management that is accountable and has personnel rules that are fairly implemented. Blaming lawyers and mostly women who have sued Pacifica is not going to solve the systemic problem at our network and station. Instead it covers over those who are responsible but have failed to properly manage the station and the network. Also as Unpaid staff I was involved to produce a grievance procedure and bylaw, also a policy and bylaw to safeguard the Unpaid staff, because when there was a grievance from one Unpaid staff against another Unpaid staff (verbal abuse) the management never worked on the issue
until that staff became tired and left. Also myself and our Middle East Radio and labor collective were instrumental in passing a resolution against Violence at the station under previous management.

John Van Eyck - No!

Joe Wanzala – I have not been party to any lawsuit involving Pacifica, but along with hundreds of listener activists across the network and as I a member of KPFA's Local Advisory Board from 2000 to 2003 I supported the listener lawsuit as part of a multi-pronged effort to remove the rogue national board.

Jim Weber - No.

Stan Woods – No.

Steve Zeltzer - I believe that the lack of transparency and unequal treatment is responsible for the present and growing list of lawsuits against KFPA and Pacifica. The effort by the management and the counsel to blame the lawyers and the workers who have filed suits is misplaced. We need to have a management that is accountable and has personnel rules that are fairly implemented. Blaming lawyers and mostly women who have sued Pacifica is not going to solve the systemic problem at our network and station. Instead it covers over those who are responsible but have failed to properly manage the station and the network.

KPFA Staff candidates

Shahram Aghmir – NO.

Mary Berg - I was a plaintiff in the LAB lawsuit against the then-Pacifica board in 1999. I provided every kind of support I was capable of, including testimony, documents, etc.  The purpose was to take back our station -  and our network -  from the rogue elements who were attempting to hijack it.  As an unpaid staff member and a LAB member, I was also very active in Camp KPFA, listener groups on both front- and back-channel levels, etc., etc.

Chris Brown – No.

Brian Edwards-Tiekert – Hell, no!

Jeannine Etter - The closest would be the 1999 lock-out and traveling to Houston to be part of the hearings that took place there.
The lock-out would have to the single most challenging experience that I have had in all my years here at the station.

Mary Tilson – No.